Pratt & Whitney receives order for F-35 engines and spare parts
Raytheon Technologies subsidiary Pratt & Whitney Military Engines has received a $579.84 million contract from Naval Air Systems Command for unit and depot level F135 engine spare parts, spare engines and modules.
Work is to be completed by December 2024.
Pratt & Whitney’s F135 propulsion system powers all three variants of the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft: the F-35A CTOL, F-35B STOVL and F-35C Carrier Variant.
Recipients will include the USAF, USMC, USN, non-Department of Defense entities and FMS customers.
According to Shephard Defence Insight, these foreign customers include Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea and the UK.
Four F135 engines were also delivered to Turkey before it was evicted from the F-35 programme in 2019.
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